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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
What became of ‘repeal and replace’? — When they took control of the House, Republicans could barely stop talking about their plans to “repeal and replace” the health care reform law. — Six months later, they hardly talk publicly about those plans at all. And they're nowhere close to “replacing” the law.
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The Hill:
Republican spending measure would block EPA climate rules — A fiscal 2012 spending bill unveiled Wednesday by House Republican appropriators includes a policy rider that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and refineries for one year.
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Weasel Zippers
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Weigel and Eschaton
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama's Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism — Even as the Obama administration continues to defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from its critics, the White House appears to have sincerely pivoted away from the idea that a higher level of aggregate demand …
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Paul Krugman, The New Republic and TalkLeft
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James Pethokoukis:
Obama really might have made it worse — The Republican charge is a body shot aimed right at the belly of President Barack Obama's re-election effort: He made it worse. — No, not that White House efforts at boosting the American economy and creating jobs and “winning the future” …
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Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette, Washington Wire, Datechguy's Blog, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Casey Anthony / The Daily Beast:
Worse Than O.J.! — While the stunning Casey Anthony acquittal defied logic, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark details how juries often delude themselves—and why this verdict trumps even her case. — Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case …
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The Atlantic Online, New York Times, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Casey Anthony and the court of public opinion
Casey Anthony and the court of public opinion
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Verum Serum
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney raises $18.25 million — Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney talks with reporters outside Allentown Metal Works in Allentown, Pa., last week. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $18.25 million …
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TPMDC, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Hot Air, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice, WMUR, The Page and americanthinker.com
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's initial fundraising goal: $50 million — Mitt Romney disclosed today that he raised $18.25 million in his initial fundraising report, but his goal for the first half of 2011 was $50 million, according to an email sent by a Romney consultant to a potential state finance aide at the end of last year.
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GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's … and Conservatives4Palin
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North — AGUA NEGRA, Mexico — The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause …
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Indecision Forever, The Atlantic Online, Greg's Opinion, Swampland and The Business Insider
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale — SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.—Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty brings a biographical peculiarity to his quest for the White House. Were he to win, he'd be the first president who had never lived outside his home state. — In fact, Mr. Pawlenty has lived …
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The Note, Eunomia, The Politico, Minnesota Independent and ABCNEWS
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Power Line:
WHY CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BECOME THE “DEAD PARROT SKETCH” OF AMERICAN POLITICS — For years now the climate campaign and the politicized science community has been complaining that it has a “communications problem,” which can be solved if only they shout louder, or get the human car alarm former …
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James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
There has been no global warming since 1998
There has been no global warming since 1998
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Hawaii Reporter, Right Wing News, China Digital Times and Watts Up With That?
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Watch a 50-Mile Wide Dust Storm Devour Phoenix — Now, we have a new reason to compare the Great Recession to the Great Depression: Steinbeck-style dust storms. Tuesday evening, a massive cloud of darkness known as a “habub” overtook Phoenix. The National Weather Service reports that the wall …
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Rob Schumacher / msnbc.com:
50-mile wide, mile-high dust storm engulfs Phoenix
50-mile wide, mile-high dust storm engulfs Phoenix
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Outside the Beltway
Charles Hoskinson / The Politico:
Accused Fort Hood shooter could face death penalty — Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will stand trial by court-martial and face a possible death penalty if convicted in the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 and wounded 30, the Army announced Wednesday.
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is ‘Rather Pathetic’ … WASHINGTON — Having the Senate declare that millionaires should share more of the pain involved in putting America's financial house in order is “rather pathetic,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday.
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Kayla Webley / newsfeed.time.com:
Investigation Finds ‘Widespread’ Cheating in Atlanta Schools — At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history to date. — The report found that teachers …
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Heather Vogell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level
Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level
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The Nation, Joanne Jacobs and Freakonomics
Julian Pecquet / Healthwatch:
Obama will send condolence letters for military suicides — President Obama will start sending condolence letters to the families of service members who commit suicide while deployed, a reversal of longstanding but unwritten government policy. The news was first reported late Tuesday by CBS News.
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New York Times:
Pressure Rises on Cameron as Hacking Draws Wide Outcry — LONDON — Britain's political establishment ventured onto new and perilous ground on Wednesday as more startling allegations emerged in the voicemail-hacking scandal, with government leaders promising to scrutinize the operations …
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Mediaite, New York Magazine, Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, FrumForum and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann's husband shares her strong conservative values — Lake Elmo, Minn. — In an interview last year with a Christian- — radio talk show, Marcus Bachmann, a therapist who runs a faith-infused counseling center here, compared homosexuals to “barbarians” who “need to be educated, need to be disciplined.”
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ThinkProgress, Ben Smith's Blog, Pam's House Blend, Pajamas Media and The Awl
Katrina vanden Heuvel / Washington Post:
Invoke the 14th — and end the debt standoff — On its current course, the United States is four weeks away from defaulting on its debt for the first time in its history. If that happens, businesses will fail. Financial institutions will fail. Home values will decline. Mortgage rates will skyrocket.
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
The 2012 Horse Whisperers — Who's giving foreign-policy advice to the crop of GOP front-runners? — Michele Bachmann: The Tea Party's new hawk — Despite all of Bachmann's Tea Party credentials, she's not looking like an isolationist when it comes to foreign policy.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Eunomia
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Cancels ‘In the Arena’ With Eliot Spitzer — 1:30 p.m. | Updated CNN on Wednesday cancelled Eliot Spitzer's 8 p.m. political talk show, “In The Arena,” and said it would shift Anderson Cooper's 10 p.m. nightly newscast into the time slot. — The cable news channel also said that Erin Burnett …
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Runnin' Scared and Weasel Zippers, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The jobs — Even the union goons are unhappy with Obama's failed economic strategy! — Posted By: RyanT. This republican congress is too busy breaking up unions and planned parenthoods to worry about job creation. Obama has some work projects he has offered up, but no one is biting.
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Weasel Zippers and AmSpecBlog
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
As Plastic Reigns, the Treasury Slows Its Printing Presses — WASHINGTON — The number of dollar bills rolling off the great government presses here and in Fort Worth fell to a modern low last year. Production of $5 bills also dropped to the lowest level in 30 years.
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Outside the Beltway and FrumForum
New York Times:
Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks — WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Republicans on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cutting deal, pledging to put popular entitlement programs like Medicare on the table in return …
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CNN, The Moderate Voice, The Politico, Washington Post, The Nation, Washington Monthly, The Mahablog, The Daily Caller and Taegan Goddard's …
New York Times:
Antitax Extremism in Minnesota — How far will Republican lawmakers go to protect millionaires? Those who think a default on the federal government's credit seems implausible should take a sobering look at the “closed” signs dotting Minnesota. The Republican Party there readily shut …
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Shot in the Dark, Minnesota Independent, Ricochet Conversation Feed and Prairie Weather
Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Supreme Court to decide on Mexican's execution — The U.S. Supreme Court has until Thursday to intervene before Texas is scheduled to put to death a convicted murderer and rapist from Mexico whose execution could place the U.S. in violation of a 38-year international treaty.
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ABCNEWS, Houston Chronicle, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller